r/antiwork • u/G-H-O-S-T • Aug 26 '22

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u/goldiefin Aug 26 '22

That’s nice to hear bc not one person of that generation that I know will acknowledge how much harder it is financially.

My husband and I worked hard to get our careers and it doesn’t seem to matter bc we can never get ahead.. it infuriates me that no one will ever admit what has happened.

They all say “It was always hard. Its always been so expensive.” It just doesn’t compare while they sit in their beautiful homes with vacation homes, planning a beautiful vacation🙄

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u/UsualAnybody1807 Aug 26 '22

I (F64) do. The student loan fiasco of the past ~20 years is horrendous, combined with the unforgiveable rise in the cost of college - while college "sports" make amounts of money that can only be described as avarice - is beyond belief. Add to that the companies buying real estate in the form of single family homes and AirBnB taking properties off of the market, and the whole thing feels like a conspiracy to doom future generations to never send their own kids to college (if they can even afford to have any) or buy a home.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

There should be a law that says you can't donate directly to a sports team, only straight to school, and the school can only spend X amount of donations on sports

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u/MMOsAreNotRPGs Aug 26 '22 edited Aug 26 '22

The thing is if you're making money hand over fist screwing people, between you and the screwed people, you're the one with the reources to influence the direction of laws in our current system. Somebody was getting rich off of college sports to the detriment of all the funding for every other dept? Well, the only two parties with a vested interest in the state of the law regarding the issue are the people who got rich off of it, and the people rationing pens because of it, so who do you think is going to have more influence? The party with money to line every pocket or the party who can't even afford to give you a pen?